Shoe-lacing stud



(Nb Model.)

J.' L. JOYCE.

1 Y SHOE LAGING STIHL Nfl-259.867. y y Patented June 20,1882.

UNITED STATES 'PATENT OFFICE. t

JOSEPH L. JOYCE, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

SHOE-LACING STUD.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 259,867, dated June 20,1882.

Application led May 10, 1882. (No model.) I

with accompanying drawings and the letters of Y reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

lFigure 1, a perspective sectional view enl larged; Fig. 2, the metalportion or body of i the stud enlarged.

This invention relates to an improvement in the studs which are attachedto shoes, and around which the lacing is drawn, as a substitute for theold-style eyelets. Usually these studs have been made from metal andcoated with japan. They are exposedto hard wear, and very soon the japanwears awayand like an eyelet.

the metal appears, detracting materially from the neat and finishedappearance which these studs'would otherwise give to the shoe.

The object of my invention isto construct the studwith a non-metallichead, and which itself gives the requisite color for the stud, andwhereby the usual wear upon the studs does not deface them; and itconsists in a metal shank, body, and back combined with a head ofplastic material closed over the edges of the back, whereby it issecured to the back,

.leaving the body exposed for the free run ot' the lacing, as more fullyhereinafter described.

The metal portion of the stud is struck from sheet metal, in the usualmanner of drawing sheet-metal-articles, the central portion drawnoutward to form the open tubular shank a, and which is-to pass through ahole made in the shoe, to be closed down on the opposite side,

Above the shank a is a concentric enlargement, b, which forms the body,and outside or above this is the back c, around the edge of which aflange, cl, is turned upward. The body b forms a bearing on the outsideof the shoe, between which and the turned over inside end of the shank athe material o the shoe is grasped.

The body'portion b is filled with a disk, e, of any suitable material-aspasteboard-then 5o placed in suitable dies the head j' is formed.- Thishead is composed of any suitable plastic material which hardens bydrying, heat, or other method of curing, and is pressed down upon theange d so as to closeover it, as seen 5:, in Fig. l. The flange d ismadeilaring, so that the material which forms the head locks overoutside of the flange and firmly secures it to the back. The disk e isintroduced to prevent the plastic material from being forced down 6o`into the tubular shank, which it would do it' the tube were left open.

The head may be made in the usual form of shoe-stud heads, or any otherdesirable or or namental shape, and may be colored to correspond to thecolor of the shoe. The coloring being produced in the preparation ot'the composition in which the head is made, is lasting, and' no matterwhat the wear upon the surface the color will be preserved. Thus I 7omake a durable and neat-appearing stud, and at slightly, if any, greatercost than the common metal japanned stud.

I claim- As an article of manufacture, the herein-described shoe-studconsisting of the metal back c, constructed with the upwardly-projectingange d, body b, and tubular shanka in one and the same piece, combinedwith the head f,

made from plastic material, closed over the 8O iange of the back,substantially as described.4

' JOS. L. JOYCE.`

Witnesses J. H. SHUMWAY, Jos. G. EARLE.

